Re: [Madwifi-devel] Re: madwifi licensing vs kernel
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From: JIm T. <ji...@ne...> - 2006-02-20 10:21:19
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Arjan van de Ven wrote: >>The guy who just "took over" the linux 802.11 work is *cranky* about >>dual-licensed code. He doesn't want to put *that* in thet tree, >>(eventhough the stack that comes with madwifi is provably better than >>the others that I've seen as 'available'. >> >> > >I rather suspect that "no non-binary users" is the argument for that, >which is reasonable, many companies have lawyers who tell their >employees not to touch such "controversial" codebase. And most of the >employees don't want to touch such potentially tainting codebase anyway. >(because by touching it they might not be allowed to work on a full GPL >solution due to IP contamination claims). > > > No, he's cranky about BSD/GPL licensed code. |